Say what we always do about stuff being replaceable, I'm looking around my living room at the various precious objects passed to me by long-dead relatives and thinking how devastating it would be to lose these completely irreplaceable things.

Yes, I could probably find a double-sided vegetable dish similar or maybe identical to the one left to me by the aunt for whom I was named, but it wouldn't have her handwritten note on it about how my sister and I so enjoyed eating vegetables from a dish that could hold two different ones that we'd eat veggies we'd otherwise refuse when Mom tried to get us to eat the same ones. They tasted different from that dish, we insisted.

All of us have possessions that remind us whenever we see them of good times and beloved people. Losing those objects still hurts even though they're "just things."

Thus, I hurt for those who have lost such irreplaceable objects that had similar value for them.

My daughter and son-in-law still know nothing about their place. Their insurance company gave getting to their home a try, but couldn't get in. Some of their best friends lost their home we found out last night.

The DC jumbo jet which had been in Austin for days was suppose to finally fly over fires today is headed for Houston instead of the Bastrop fire.

Right now waiting to find out news is the hardest part for our family. Good news daughter's family do have a vacation rental in Austin to stay in. So they have a roof over their heads and are safe that is what matters the most currently. When they evacuated Sunday they really thought they would be returning the next day. They just didn't understand the magnitude of the situation, so didn't gather too much to take with them.

Our grandson turns two years old a month from today, so he really doesn't know what is happening right now. Days 3 and 4 the children were at some friend's who had a boy younger than Parker, so Parker had toys to play with.